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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1880
Page
6
An excerpt from St. Nicholas for March presents a whimsical spring poem by Louise E. Thaxter. The crocus awakens, pleading not to wake the world too early while elves and sunlit scenes glow in a cheerful, hopeful meadow.
A man ponders his wife’s aging beauty and the enduring value of inner grace. The article asks whether a husband sustains admiration, guards peace, and helps preserve both physical charm and the soul’s warmth through years of marriage. It urges wives to tend their affection and appearance while wisely managing home life.
The column glosses on the Tay Bridge disaster affecting Sunday travel in Scotland, the Duke of Argyll's jesting reception of a joke, an epitaph from Versailles, Cuba’s new tax on rural goods and rents, a Berlin banquet for Miss Leona Dare ending in royal rebuke, a London beauty’s diamonds proved fake, a Lyons will dispute making Nephew Malgras heir, Sir Garnet Wolseley’s forthcoming colonial recognition, and the Duke of Cambridge holding five colonelcies with substantial pay.
Rev. Ashmore recalls a Hong Kong harbor concert by Commodore Perry’s fleet. An exiled Chinaman and others listened to the band as “The Last Rose ofSummer” faded, then “Home Sweet Home” began. He sighs that a gong would have made the moment perfect.
A miscellany of topics covers a possible hop crop shortfall, Kentucky Bourbon distilleries and their output, spectroscopy and salt detection, Dr Enrarp's home remedies for neuralgia, Pompeii shells and ancient mollusks, Bollinger on tuberculosis in cattle, sewing machine export figures, and debates on execution methods with a French physicist noting risks of various methods.
A committee on Vital Statistics failed to report if the sun moves toward or away from Earth. The chair Carr Humpoier Crawson and members Leghorn Hastings and others quarreled, the sun was ignored, and the panel dissolved after a comic row. The captain fined five dollars plus a dollar for coal duty after a brief mock trial. On a voyage from Hon Hong to San Francisco a son drowned and another was born aboard.
The Union Greenback Labor Party met in St Louis on March 4 with about 3800 delegates. Officers elected included Ralph E Hoyt Indiana as president and B J Chambers Texas as vice president. A lengthy platform called for legal tender Greenbacks, a graduated income tax, eight hour workday, anti korruption stance, and government control of money. Dillaye of New Jersey was nominated for president. the committee planned to present sentiments in Chicago.
A religious reading tells of a girl learning a painful lesson from a teacher and a higher voice. The scene uses birds in autumn as a metaphor for understanding and patience. The message: it is better to learn together with guidance than alone, trusting divine aid.
Dr Schaff spoke at St Pauls Church on Bible revision, tracing history from Wycliffe to the King James Bible and outlining the American English Revision Commission. He argued the new edition would enhance clarity, inspire devotion, and eventually replace the authorized version.
The note records Rev. Jacob Duche’s 1777 prayer for Congress asking divine protection for the American cause. It asks God to guide leaders, spare bloodshed, and bless the fledgling nation with wisdom, peace, and justice in a plea ending with Amen. The fragment concludes with a remark on benevolence being the rich man’s only happiness.
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