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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1876
Page
3
Summer wanes as leaves fade and forest whispers turn to mourning. Bees slow at clover bloom while streams murmur farewell. The world mirrors the speaker's sighs as birds and wind praise summer’s passing.
The unfinished Washington Monument rises 174 feet, begun in 1848, once set in mud now a park, with costs of 230000 dollars. Congress recently allotted 200000 more, but the Circular from the Monument Association says more is needed to finish the shaft, urging subscriptions and clarity on total cost and completion time.
The author muses that autumn’s halcyon days recall the Indian presence in red and yellow hues. He envisions campfire smoke in the air and nature’s bounty as the season embodies the hunter’s time, linking contentment and memory with John Burroughs’s Scribner October publication.
The piece presents a mixed page of fiction and verse including a Revolutionary tale about Maw the Scotcheap Family and their bacon, two woodcut pictures by Sol Kytinge, a Susan Coolidge Italian life story, a short poem by M. M.D called Out of the Sky, a humorous jingle The Cat and Dog illustrated by Addie Leayard, and features Centennial humor in Dick Hardin’s comic, a pane legend poem, and a Washington clothes article, plus Jack-in-the-Pulpit and Letter-Box sections.
The October issue of Helectic includes a steel engraving of veteran biblical scholar Dr. Philip Sechaff with a brief life sketch. It presents seventeen articles plus editorials, covering modern philosophers on the world's age, mythologies, Russia in Europe, Victorian writers, travel sketches, poetry, and literary notes. Published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond Street, New York. Terms $5 per year, single issue 45 cents.
The October Atlantic Monthly opens with General O O Howard on The Battles about Atlanta and maps. Charles Dudley Warner surveys Jerusalem neighborhoods. a new Western tale The Thursdale Telegraphs precedes Mrs. Kemble's Old Woman's Gossip chapters. Includes Perry on George Sand, Preston on The Songs of the Troubadours, James Jr The American, Whipple on Dickens, a Librarian’s Work by John Fiske, and a fourth Philadelphia letter on the International Fair. Poems by Aldrich Lathrop HW Pratt. Recent Literature and Education adds critical prose.
A fragmented 19th century notice sketches cultural oddities and social quirks. It mentions backbiters fleeing, ballet selections, national frontier tears, honor as surety, portrait painting, ear adornments for babies, a Louisiana paper named as a tamers tidad, Nevada’s gun bravado, Indian fashion trails and hoop skirts, and the Cholera goddess belief among the Indians.
The October issue of St Nicnotas closes volume three with Prof. Richard A. Proctor’s The Morning and Evening Star, explaining Venus' changes and conditions with five pages and four diagrams. Mrs. Oliphant’s Windsor Castle series ends with Queen Victoria, illustrated with pictures and a Princess Victoria engraving. The magazine bids farewell to Oliphant, while Mrs. Dodge presents Talk with Girls titled Worth your Weight in Gold. HW EL covers A Colorado Woman's Museum. Mr. Brooks’ serial The Boy Emigrants concludes, MARNE, and more notable items follow.
The October number of Ballou's Monthly Magazine is hailed as the best in months with domestic stories sea yarns adventures love stories poetry and fashion engravings. Contents include A Peep at the Batrachia Rangoon The Moose The Rhinoceros St Paul's Cathedral and more. Published by Thames & Talbot Boston priced $1.50 per year or 15 cents per copy.
Scribner for October presents a laudatory illustrated article on American sports about salmon fishing. Author A Wilkinson exhausts the subject with detailed, technically accurate drawings and analysis, noting substantial effort and illustrations throughout the piece.
A digest of illustrated talks and essays. Clarence Cook presents dining room themes en route for the dining room a hall in the hall the dining room. Col Waring's Moses River papers The Bride of the Rhine are summarized. Plus agricultural education notes and various literary pieces by Vivian Mitchel Burroughs Boyesen Stoddard Dodge Meyers Holland Quinn and others.
Lippincott's October number surveys art galleries with discriminating criticism to aid visitors. It highlights Goree island in Africa, Bosnian struggles, South Africa letters, Maryland's Eastern Shore memories, and a South West war tale. Serials, memoirs, and poetry accompany reviews, criticisms, and sketches from Crane to White and Donaldson.
Appletons Journal presents a varied October 1876 issue with pieces by Helen Mathers Julian Hawthorne Edgar Fawcett and others. It includes serials biographies poetry translations and reviews plus an editor's table discussing sermons mechanics Wagner and contemporary theater with Gideon Welles on Lincoln era events.
The Publishers of Scribner's Monthly announce for the coming year new serials and articles. Included are Dr J G Holland's Nicholas Minturn, That Lass o Lowries and Philip Nolans Friends conclusions, Miss Traftons His Inheritance, Sketches of Foreign Travel by Gen McClellan, sporting articles on Salmon and Trout fishing, Grouse and Duck shooting, twelve hours with the microscope by Mrs Herrick, The Beginnings of Life single celled plants, the co operative movement in Great Britain with Charles Barnard, more papers by Clarence Cook on house furnishing, and descriptions of American Cities among other papers.
The Spirit of the Times for the week ending September 22 features a frontispiece engraving of Mac a noted trotter from 1848 to 1854 and a range of sporting articles across twenty eight pages. It notes an English corporation forming to stage a world exposition in 1880 at Rome.
Chicago and Northwestern Railway promotes travel to major U S and Canadian cities with connections at Chicago to eastern routes and at Omaha to the Union Pacific. It touts Pullman Palace Cars, through sleeper links, modern track, brakes, bridges, and comfort. Endorsed by Marvin Hughitt and W A Stennett as general superintendent and general passenger agent.
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