08 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1879
Page
1
A dated verse piece contemplates bachelor solitude. The speaker imagines lonely life without a wife, contrasting freedom with lack of affection, care, and sympathy, and questions the price of such liberty. Dated January 1879 from Camp.
A scattered clipping records a humorous scene with Mr. Johnson resisting a beguiling fundraising lure from women forming a Foreign Benevolent Society, interlaced with notices about Judge J. D. Walker’s senatorial election, stock pasture debates, slave era economics, pistol fines, groundhog forecasts, senator private secretaries, and a Denton band of desperadoes reorganizing for action.
Memphis January 14. At a general council meeting last night resolutions favoring repeal of the city charter were passed by both boards.
In Burdette's lecture Mexia Ledger notes the question why it is easier to shoot a good man than hang a bad one. The paper adds experiments across counties show ribbon sugar cane grows well with normal conditions and syrup can be produced as easily as sorghum.
Special to the Fort Worth Democrat reports a quiet session with bills to repeal dog and land note taxes and a proposal to cut legislature size. Delegates debate penitentiary rules while asylum superintendents push for satisfaction. Conviction in counterfeit cases rises. weather described as summery.
Captain Tyson recounts the Polaris voyage and the nineteen explorers stranded from Oct 15. They built three snow huts, endured storms, a newborn on day 69, and subsisted on seal meat and pemmican. Rescued on April 19 off Labrador after drifting 2000 miles.
The article quotes harsh criticism of federal marshals in Texas and recounts Civil War era distress as gold peaks at 285 with the greenback valued at 35 cents. It notes a plan for revenue system reform and cites Lincoln era fears and Washington defense during the Petersburg crisis.
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