16 Sep 1887
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1887
Page
1
The speaker uses travel imagery to promise a peaceful final destination. After trials and night, the journey ends at the Great Station of Rest, where all burdens are shed. The poem envisions reunions, calm gardens, and enduring peace in the City of Rest.
In Royalton a lonely woodworker Joe Yocum hears a voice in Willow lane and meets Melinds Thurston not a ghost but injured seeking help. He carries her toward a doctor, his courage rising as a distant danger and local legend collide in the night.
Joe Yocum Hopkins, a simpleton, rushes to alert Dr. Thurston to Josy Hopkins's lung congestion. He ferries the sick infant between the cottage and care, steadies him through fever and fatigue, and quietly believes he has driven Death away, winning a fragile recovery for the child.
In New York Mercury the tale follows Joe Yocum who saved a widow’s baby and later falls ill with pneumonia. Despite aid from Dr Thurston and friends, his strength wanes as death approaches and he recalls his refusal to protect the child.
London dispatch reports the Exter Theatre Royal fire during Romany Rye. Sixty corpses removed and about a hundred feared lost as a dense crush trapped patrons in the gallery and pit. Fire brigade efforts failed. survivors and injured were taken to hospital.
General notes report Salem Alabama becomes a free delivery office on October 1. Other items include the International Medical Congress adjourning sine die, and a varied mix of arrests, bankruptcies, and political tensions across the United States and Europe.
A two story church in Needmore near Manchester collapsed suddenly trapping sixty to seventy people. The upper church area dropped thirteen feet with almost all inside injured. Three men were seriously hurt and one fatally injured before doctors from the county arrived to aid the wounded.
Prosperity South Carolina dispatch reports Job Worth shot and killed Jes Sadler about five miles from Prosperity. Sadler had warned Worth he would kill him at sight. This morning Sadler confronted Worth near his home, knife drawn, and Worth fired, killing Sadler. Both men were young white men with prior penitentiary time for housebreaking.
A Toledo dispatch reports a tornado origin in southern Michigan cutting a path from Sylvania to Waterville with damaged schools, destroyed timber, unroofed houses, and a crane of a locomotive. No deaths in that span, but a Wabash train stack displaced and the Steane asylum sustains 8000 in losses.
A dispatch from New York reports Mrs Frances Cleveland declines delivering flags to the New York fire department. She cites unwillingness to participate publicly while her husband, the president, took no part. The missive is written in her own handwriting from the Executive Mansion Washington dated September 5 1887.
A Boston dispatch reports a naphtha schooner exploded near the Chelsea Bridge. Four men were hurled into flames and died. a fifth drowned after jumping overboard. The fire reached Cunningham's four story storehouse, 150 by 50 feet, containing owl. The blaze blocked the draw bridge delaying firefighting efforts.
The signal office reports cooler than usual conditions in the lake and Mid-Atlantic regions and warmer in the Missouri and lower Ohio valleys. Season-to-date temperatures remain near normal with localized 1–2 degree increases in several states and deficits in others. Rainfall patterns show excess in parts of the north and deficits along the south Atlantic and gulf coasts, with a season-long rainfall shortfall greatest in Iowa and the lower Mississippi valley. Crops: corn harvest ongoing and below average in Nebraska, frost risk noted in Minnesota, further rain needed for late corn in Kansas. Cotton regions experience dryness and worm damage in parts of the deep south. tobacco areas see injurious rainfall deficits in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, while North Carolina reports favorable weather. Pastures generally good in Nebraska, improved in Minnesota, Michigan, and northern Illinois, but drying in southern Illinois. A light frost affects western North Carolina sweet potatoes. northern Illinois reports frost on the 8th. killing frosts recorded in central Minnesota and upper Michigan on the 10th, and northern Vermont on the 11th.
Labor Day was observed with a city wide holiday as offices closed and courts paused. A monster parade led by John Morrison a Knights of Labor master workman drew about 25 000 participants from almost every trade in the city, streets filled with spectators.
The lighthouse board announces a fixed white third order light with a red flash every 30 seconds to be shown from the new southern Anciote Keys Florida lighthouse starting September 15 1887. Focal plane is 101 12 feet above sea level and the light should be visible fifteen miles at sea in clear weather. The black iron pyramidal structure carries a black lantern and nearby are two white keeper dwellings with green blinds.
Charleston dispatch reports former South Carolina governor William Aiken died at his Flat Rock country home in North Carolina at age eighty one. Aiken served as governor in 1844 and as congressman from 1851 to 1857. He was the state's largest slave holder and a successful rice planter who opposed nullification and secession and withdrew from politics after leaving Congress. He was among the first trustees of the Peabody fund.
Washington dispatch reports Assistant Secretary Porter will tender his resignation in a few days. He leaves the State Department with good feelings for officials, citing Mrs. Porter’s ill health and private reasons. He plans to return to his home in Tennessee after relinquishing office.
A Bloomingburg farmer's mare named Whitefoot ferries his two daughters to the schoolhouse each morning and returns alone to the farm. After school she is driven back and forth, never colliding with traffic. A note on the wagon seat warned others not to stop her, and she safely covered nine miles to return home in about an hour.
Washington dispatches describe the President and Mrs Cleveland welcoming five thousand members of an International Congress and their guests at the White House. The event included a visit to the Corcoran Art Gallery, Marine Band music, and extensive viewing of rooms and tropical plants.
State Department reports Mexico has investigated the San Beso murder of American Joseph H. Duval. Seven men were arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. Pending appeal, the prisoners have been sent to Monte Clara.
A violent confrontation in Halbrook Apache county Arizona left Andy Cooper and Samuel Blevins dead. Sheriff Owens and Mose B Roberts were wounded with Owens lightly and Roberts mortally. Cooper fired first when arrested, killing the sheriff’s coat and prompting a broad volley from inside the house. Samuel Blevins is described as a 14 year old who fought fiercely.
The article describes a Sunday afternoon scene on Mott Street with Chinese peanut stands, salted water boiled nuts, watermelon seed servings, sugar cane stalls, and a distinctive ice cream called Leon fun or cold cream. It notes the appeal of boiled ice cream and mentions ponies bred at Concord Stock Farm and Big Meadow Farm.
The initials J B L appear on the United States twenty dollar gold pieces indicating the designer J B Longacre who crafted the coin.
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