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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1882
Page
4
A short verse extols three angels Love Hope and Patience guiding life through hardship. It contrasts barren life with a note that a little love and patience can brighten the modern dreary path and offer a hopeful message amid winter and ruin. Temple Bar.
Old sailor Jack Caswell recounts a perilous voyage from Mobile to New Orleans with Captain Warrenton. Desperadoes Ruell Victor and Dennis Lorne hid in the hold and planned to seize the ship aided by Ned Allen. The captain and Caswell overpowered them at night, securing a 3000 dollar reward and delivering the culprits to authorities. Ned Allen faced punishment, and the others were hanged. The crew resumed sea service with two new hands.
An Indian Territory correspondence describes a Cherokee home set in a locust grove with a frame house, ample piazza, and heirloom furnishings. The scene includes a spring through a log spring-house, a smoke house with hams, poultry flocks, and a large farm complex totaling over one hundred acres with orchards, gardens, wheat and corn fields, and expansive pastureland.
The article details John L. Lay of Buffalo and Chief Engineer Wood's advanced torpedo using carbonic acid gas, with a bow-placed explosive chamber and controllable helm and engine gasses. It also reports a Herald investigation exposing plotters led by Deputy U S Marshal Tom Gerrin and Division Superintendent L L Keller who foiled gang plans to rob Missouri Pacific trains near Denton and Argyle, with multiple outlaws killed or captured and one dead nearby. James Vick, prominent seed man, has died. he authored farming notes and funded large charitable distributions.
Allan D. Brown notes in Harper's Magazine that a long wire system increases range beyond rivals. Mr Lay continually improves the design under many patents. Russia has adopted the system after successful trials of ten boats. A factory is established and future war use is planned.
A four and a half foot silver vein assaying 150 to the ton was found in the Magruder mines in Lincoln County Georgia. Owners plan vigorous development with new capital and Major Geo. T. Jackson of Augusta is the principal owner and information source.
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