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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1881
Page
2
News from Sullivan County to New York and beyond details frosts in New England and Canada, a large Pennsylvanian stock disbursement as the Wilmington Road nears Pennsylvania control, hospital smallpox and typhus counts in New York, and weather calamities across several states. Reports include railroad fraud alerts, Indian conflicts in the Uncompahgre Valley, a Mississippi steam boat explosion, and maritime labor actions.
Across the period’s items the report notes rules adopted in a New York joint session to govern the convention proceedings with daily noon meetings until two U.S. Senators are chosen or adjournment occurs, plus an alternate adjournment rule for Sundays. The summary also lists political events from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan, South Carolina, and national naval and civic matters with numerous named individuals and places.
The Union announces a meeting on October to discuss the duty of the present Legislature to elect a United States Senator to succeed Mr Rollins whose term expires in 1883.
A Quebec City fire on the 8th destroyed St. John's suburb, with 657 buildings burned and 1,600 people left homeless. Five lives were lost. losses estimated at 1.5 million dollars, insured for 650 thousand. The fire followed wooden houses, no water, and weak firefighting.
LATER NEWS reports LATER NEWS items including LATER NEWS: KREENW’a Foxiatt wins the Grand Prix at Longchamp near Paris on the 12th with 1,000,000 francs prize and about 340,000 spectators. Gicaxer arrives in Chicago on the 17th. Andrew D. Ronson, nephew of ex secretary Robeson, killed by lightning in Lunnewell Kansas on the 12th. Storms ruin harvests in southern Hungary. Smallpox cases rise by 122 in London hospitals in two weeks to the 11th. Walsh v Brown suit begins in District Circuit Court seen as end of Star route frauds. Guiscom begins voluntary abstinence fast. loses weight but remains hopeful. National Bank notes outstanding total 34,076,097. Adger Ronerson to become Collector of the Port of New York by July 1. Lafayatte courthouse roof collapses. three workers die. Only 104 members attend New York Legislature joint convention. Senate elections lead to no choice. William L Haut, once a New York landlord, duped of 50,000 by John Parker. Parker arrested after seeking restitution in California.
A devastating flood along the National Road near Wheeling, West Virginia, sweeps away bridges and farms and costs $60,000 in damage. Frederick Straub survives with his remaining child while seven family members perished including Fritz, Mary, Louisa, Ferena, and Albert. two youngest rescued bodies later recovered.
A San Francisco wedding of Mr Lee You and Miss Al Chung features a male and female guest gift tradition. The groom hosted a banquet for 500 guests with elaborate Chinese dishes. The bride appeared with a fan, drank tea for favored guests, and the couple’s three day celebration ended when the groom was escorted home by his in-laws.
A Portsmouth family tale centers on a son once two and now grown as a violent, insane man kept in an attic by his mother for eighteen years. After the mother’s death the boy is found, cared for by the mother alone, and later sent to Cranston asylum.
The device uses two counter rotating prisms to create persistence of vision magic with living animal scenes. It shows horses racing with varying speeds, a deer hunt with dogs and riders, a somersault on a horse, and a man surprised by a bull. Gov. Stamford plans to ship the equipment to Europe for further demonstrations to art and science groups.
Gaston Sevier, of the First New York Cavalry, learns his brother Major Alphonse Sevier of the Forty Sixth New York Infantry, long presumed dead since 1866, is alive in California Missouri. The live man describes a life in Kansas and a sudden return to St. Louis, challenging Prussian court declarations.
The clergyman in a mixed English parish fostered practical gardening lessons and gifts of seeds and plants. A village show grew into a thriving horticultural society with prizes funded by neighbors, transforming the community into a garden of beauty. A later England patent agitation linked cheap patents to mechanical progress concerns.
Reports note the first California cotton mill underway, a sandstone deposit near Regan on the Texas and Pacific line, and German efforts in electrical telegraphy using underground wires. Also covered are Utah silk preparations, a Belgian glass imitation formula, contagion control via heat, a new Lockwood telephonic experiment, and a German plastic mass for relief carvings and durable sculptural work.
A mosaic of humorous snippets from various papers including playful lines about margarine, cows, poets, and local anecdotes. The collage features quips about weather, manners, and gossip with brief exchanges and mock dialogues.
A youth’s vanity in praising a choir anthem at a chapel leads Dr Muhlenberg to redirect praise to God. The future clergyman recalls the rebuke, using the moment to curb vanity whenever it rises. The tale from Youth’s Companion emphasizes music as servant to devotion.
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