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Newspaper
Hamilton Examiner
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1874
Page
2
A vivid account from a Baltimore American reprint describes a rapid, inhumane method of slaughter in Texas. It covers crowded pens, spear-like knives, neck venous entry, and the subsequent processing in large cauldrons, with blood, skinning, and the hash-pile byproducts.
Captain King of Texas manages 70 000 acre fenced pasture and about 130 000 acres more in Nueces and Ducal counties. His current stock totals 50 000 cattle 20 000 sheep and 10 000 horses. He overstocked his range causing many to be driven out while 000 head were sent to Kansas and 4 000 slaughtered for hides and tallow. He buys another Cameron county ranch with 10 000 cattle and 10 000 acres. He experiments to improve state stock importing Kentucky cattle and focusing on horse stock.
Editorial denounces clerical firings as a GOP ploy to show economy. It criticizes reductions across departments, especially in the Treasury, as politically motivated and misused funds. The piece accuses leaders of hiring favorites into independent bureaus and preserving loyalists over merit.
A farmer writes about common farmyard fowl and their egg output. Black Spanish, Leghorn, and turban breeds are described with yearly egg counts and brood-raising notes. The writer estimates daily bread and garden harvests, noting practical poultry care.
The piece argues that historic endowments in Oxford Cambridge and English schools show a strong value of liberal education, contrasting them with modern American funding. It urges wealthy patrons to found comprehensive universities in the United States, citing Nicholas Wadham and Dorothy Wadham and John Hopkins as models, and advocates state-linked, merit-based access to expand education nationally.
Charles Crowell, aged seventy, died in Green Village New Jersey after forty five years as a raving madman kept chained and nude in a single room. His sister and mother cared for him until their deaths, with spells of violence and periods of quiet, feeding through a window and fluctuating hunger.
The Corning prize fight between Billy Edwards of this city and Sam Collier of Baltimore, valued at $2000 with the American championship at stake, originally set for Aug 6 within 100 miles of Detroit, is postponed to occur within 100 miles of Pittsburgh on Aug 11.
The Rev. Dr Bellows wed in Boston on Tuesday to the daughter of Rev Dr Peabody. Rumor said the ceremony would be at 3 pm in All Souls Church here, drawing crowds who found doors shut with no sign of a marriage.
Yankton Dak July 1 Chief Justice Shannon overruled the motion for a new trial in the Wintermute case and sentenced the defendant to ten years in the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison. Defense counsel said they will seek Supreme Court review at the Territory session opening here next week.
Henry Grinnell died at his New York residence at age seventy five. He led Grinnell Minturn & Co for years and is remembered for funding two vessels placed under a U S Navy officer to search for the lost Sir John Franklin.
A letter from Emerson Manitoba reports a tremendous storm as 300 Canadian mounted police horses stampeded through St Paul. They ran over tents, men, wagons and obstacles, injuring many and disabling several horses. Surgeons tended the wounded at a tent secured by six men.
A quoted passage condemns animal cruelty stating that torturers of beasts are lower in humanity. It contrasts a deadly assailant’s risk with the tormentor who takes pleasure in suffering animals, asserting the heart and humanity are lost when cruelty endures despite pleas.
In Paris during July the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Thirty drafts a constitution preserving the Presidency, creating a second Chamber, and establishing a personal Septenary. It would end with President McMahon’s seven year term, or sooner on death or resignation, with no successor named, seen as paving the way for possible monarchical restoration when the Septenate ceases.
A historic note explains telescope use to study the Moon from 239 miles away, noting high mountains and changing shadows with sunlight. It asserts no inhabitants visible, even at high magnification, and mentions vertical sun angles altering shadow prominence on lunar terrain.
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