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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1878
Page
8
A patchwork of notes and curiosities spans global topics and quirky scenes. Highlights include Italian townships sinking, Australian depopulation fears, coal finds in Peru, and hemp and electricity debates. Light sketches feature Gladstone, alderman anecdotes, Cain and Abel misstatements, parliamentary verbatim reports, and odd experiments with nettles and tea.
The article argues Britain dominates Africa through discovery, colonization, and conquest. It claims Africa houses 200 million people versus 80 million in the Americas, notes English conquests in Abyssinia Caffraria and Ashantee, and warns Liberia may fall under British influence due to American neglect.
Captain Fengar of the revenue cutter Ewing recounts a dark Sunday at Annapolis harbor. A schooner with no mast light asks for a lamp, and after a jesting exchange the skipper swaps a red lamp into a white lantern to avoid a report. The puzzled sailor exclaims at the sight.
Frank Palmer, who fought with Major Reno, disputes reports that Custer’s remains were never interred at West Point. He details a grave burial method with a marked stick bearing Custer’s name, saying officers were buried in marked graves while the soldiers were only partially covered.
The article notes Austria gains a province requiring 200000 troops and risk to treasury, Russia expands into vast foreign hordes, and England claims Cyprus with a fever-hit army. It predicts costly efforts to subdue the Ottoman Sultan and mocks European triumphalism with a Massachusetts farmer scene and a duck joke as light relief.
Recent official statements show 4 500 000 acres under fruit culture with 112 000 000 apple trees 28 000 000 pear trees 12 270 000 peach trees and 141 260 000 grape vines. National fruit crop valued at 18 216 700 dollars, apples contributing 50 400 000 pears 18 140 009 grapes 2 118 000 other fruits 16 000 000. A man in Illinois died by drowning. his wife sat on his head during the incident.
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