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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1882
Page
6
A jumble of notes reports Arthur letters and potato losses, Sir Arthur in Arctic talks, Turkish diplomacy, Chicago judge Gary, a Burleson county wedding, a guarded bride’s gift, and a study of mischief by youths across several states. Observations range from high prices in Vienna beer to banking worries, burglaries, and shocking juvenile crimes.
Richard Grant White recalls Madame Sontag's first concerts in which ten year old Paul Jullien stunned audiences with violin virtuosity. In a private room he and Count Rossi passed time sailing paper boats from concert programs while Jullien paused to play as Sontag entered. The anecdote ends with the audience's applause.
A jumble of Illinois items reports 454 prisoners at a penitentiary in Magswann county and a new county court house plan in Galesburg. It notes Eureka maid stories, a large Cairo bird with eight foot wings, a fatal Union county train accident and a hangings in DeWitt. It covers Illinois sheriffs group, Swigert life insurance report, and Illinois life and accident policies for 1881 with totals, assets, surpluses, premiums, and in force policies.
George Young, sinking a shaft for Pern Mining Co near Galena, was hoisted from eighty feet when he fainted and slipped, plunging to the shaft bottom. His neck broke, body bruised, death instantaneous.
In a broad labor action, twenty thousand workers in Pittsburgh and nearby cities halted ironwork as thirty mills idle except Union Mills Carnegie Brothers. The vast strike shifts wealth and sparks speculation on its outcome as crowds parade and order remains. Across Monaurre Bay View Creversop W Va and Joliet towns, mills close, coal demand falls, and clashes erupt as workers resist wage demands.
The Census Bureau issued a bulletin with statistics on the manufactures of twenty principal U S cities for the census year June 1 1879 to May 31 1830. It tabulates establishments capital invested workers and product values arranged by value of output.
Fairlies and Dwellingys Census bulletin No. 282 recaps total population 50,155,743 with 2,900,170 square miles area excluding 69,850 in unorganized territory. It lists 9,845,915 families and 8,965,812 dwellings, densities per square mile, and acres per person and per family. It also names states with over 100,000 families and provides dwelling and family counts for several states including Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia among others.
A vessel bound from the Mauritius to Tasmania credits oil for steering through a severe storm. Sailors cast weighted swabs every two hours as waves rose, oil meeting the spray and reducing impact to a heavy swell. Miss Gray Anmoon Bunss, 16 or 17, descends from a Scottish poet and resembles him closely. She and her mother dust pews in a Dumfries church to make a living. Suprametrop hydrogen destroys the red spider without harming delicate plants.
Griggs Glycerine Salve touted as the best on earth for cuts bruises burns wounds and all sores with a claimed cure for piles skin eruptions and other conditions. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Only 25 cents. Sold by Emmert and Barrell Azyl.
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