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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1887
Page
5
A Brooklyn Tabernacle sermon centers on David feigning madness before the Gathites. The preacher warns against trusting in self, urges immediate repentance, and praises risking all for faith in God.
A bent man with a long white beard, Casimir Sufczynski, claimed as Count Pulaski’s grand nephew, was seen at Second and Girard leaning on a cane. He immigrated in 1880 after Siberian exile and sought a Pulaski estate pension, meeting Presidents Hayes and Cleveland with congressional support from Randall but no success. He sold goods without a license until recently and now receives Polish American society charity.
Irish children in a London school chose a Crystal Palace trip but were taken to Madame Tussauds to see waxworks. They expected Charles Stewart Parnell to tower above with regalia and power, but found only a plain wax figure, sparking disillusionment.
The Cape Cod canal dredging uncovered about fifty oak effigies believed buried for a century. Local lore assigns the carvings to a deranged artist named Nye who carved a Sandwich belle Hester Tupper and hid the pieces in marsh ditches.
A Bordeaux charity sale for flood victims featured President Grevy gifting a Sevres Florence vase and General Boulanger presenting a revolver. The vase went unappreciated while the revolver drew all attention, reflecting France's current mood as noted by the Chicago Herald.
The Crematorial association of Philadelphia prepares to build a world leading crematory chapel. It features a 66 foot front and 105 foot depth with a 90 foot dome height. Granite pressed brick and terra cotta will form the exterior, at an estimated cost of 40000 dollars per the Chicago Times.
Mme Modjeska said she will remain on stage for one more year to perform roles she has not yet acted in. She plans to move to southern California after the next year, as her husband wishes to retire her from the stage.
Miss Ada Leigh, an English philanthropist who earlier established a home for young men with a restaurant and reading room, is now in New York to undertake similar charitable work there.
A Soquel Cal billiards player, troubled by a corn on his toe, removed the toe with a chisel after taking off his boot. He stopped the bleeding with cobwebs, capped the stump, and finished the resumed game.
The Moody schools at Northfield Massachusetts celebrate Dwight L. Moody’s fifty years since birth and his plan to educate youth by combining classical and industrial schooling. The Northfield campus spans 250 acres for the girls seminary and 400 acres for the boys school, with strict admission standards and an emphasis on Bible based culture.
Describes Moody’s girls seminary with three year Latin and English courses, daily Bible use, total yearly cost of 100 dollars, and a closely supervised dormitory. Mount Hermon boys' school enforces strict admission, farm labor, and small groups under two matrons. Also reports a Chicago Herald account claiming a car platform cured consumption by air inhalation.
In Southern Bivouac, Y E Allison links Virginia to Arkansas mountaineers to English convict labor and runaway slaves. The piece traces how escaped convicts fled into rugged highland refuges, resisting re enslavement, aiding Union recruitment, and shaping Republican sympathy amid Civil War era tensions.
A New York Mail and Express interview with an artist explores changing tombstone trends from heavy to light styles. It notes angels and Greek figures, rough hewn rock, and dove motifs gain popularity, with widows more likely to spend on fine monuments than widowers or younger mourners.
Cardinal Gibbons in a sermon in this city argues the world grows better, with righteousness and moral growth accompanying enlightenment. He contrasts present order with two centuries ago when law was scarce and corruption and immorality were widespread, noting changes since the London era.
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