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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1872
Page
6
Fragmented lines from a poem describe a single rose in cooling dew and fading sweetness while recalling war memories. The speaker questions loss, longing, and the impact of conflict on love, memory, and beauty as time moves on.
A collection of home tips covers using salt and ashes for horses to soften hair and deter pests, adding sulfur for periodic boosts, and caring for draperies and carpets. It includes methods to refresh dusty carpets, drain four foot clay subsoil, and leatherworking notes from Canada.
Wheat straw fermented with moist vegetable matter such as fresh clover or grass improves feed quality by making fiber more soluble and converting part into starch sugar and gum. Professor Voelker notes fifty percent soluble fiber with fermentation versus twenty six percent with unprepared straw. Steam treating straw chaff yields similar effects and increases palatability when mixed with meals or bran.
The Havana journals claim the Cuban Junta pays about $2,000 to a Madrid journalist to write in support of Cuban independence. Telegrams in American journals are said to be forged in New York or sent by Azarate from Madrid. A former Havana correspondent will craft letters to imply insurrectionist support among Spaniards and obscure the true author. New York editorials supporting insurgents are claimed to be written by insurgents who pay above normal rates to avoid appearing as ads. A Bresixe Coal Mine: a fire at Bank Colliery near Rotherham, England, led to a wall built 1600 yards long to confine it. The wall uses thick plugs and metal pipes. heat allows multiple crops per year in gardens above the mine.
A travel note from Venice describes arriving by gondola to the Hotel Barbesi on the Grand Canal, with silent waters, absence of traffic, and a view of St. Maria della Salute. The party patronizes a five-oar gondola for two days, visits the Armenian Convent with Byron manuscripts, and tours landmarks including the Rialto Bridge, Jesuit church, Santa Maria del Frari tombs, and St Mark's Church with its eclectic Baroque elements.
At the insane asylum Blackwell's Island a homeless maniac known as horse John believes he is a horse. He draws a small wagon, prances, whips himself with a tail, and ignores attempts to persuade him otherwise. He spends his days in a wooden cart, a human wreck overlooked by passersby.
The Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture will award two prizes of 300 and 200 dollars on March 1 for the best fish culture establishments. Entries must include names and addresses to Secretary Edward N. Perkins, 22 Court Street, Boston. Judging factors include species variety, stock numbers, size, eggs hatched, survival, and facility conditions. Surpwrecser. The brigantine Phebe Ejlen from Londonderry NS to Havana capsized off Digby Basin. The cook died. crew lashed to wreck. two days later it struck a ridge. Captain Dill drowned, three crew frozen, only the mate and two men rescued.
A travel account describes the marble pillars and bronze horses at St Mark's, the Doges portraits, and the Lion's Head, plus the DUAL PALACE rooms, Bridge of Sighs, and the lively St Mark square with Florian's Café. It recalls the Academy of Fine Arts, Titian and Veronese works, Arsenal relics, and a final Venice stay before sailing to Trieste for $34 total.
Rumor from distant Australia tells of Leichardt and his party, white explorers missing for 27 years. One tale says a lone survivor is held by inland blacks, deranged and with long white hair. Some debate if expeditions will seek him amid a tropical noon. The Rev George H Hepworth in New York abandons Unitarianism for Orthodoxy.
A 19th century notice lays out New York State rules for supplying fish from the State Hatching House, detailing publics waters only, Octo ber shipments of impregnated spawn, and deliveries limited to Caledonia for living fish with a 50 cent or $2 pickup fee plus travel. It lists species, stock locations, and storage methods, and explains Oswego bass and others will stock in winter at Rochester. A separate Paris Figaro method describes lighting with a phosphorus vial and olive oil for instant light, to be used in magazines storing explosive materials.
A British invention for grinding wheat without millstones uses a free projected grain path struck by fast bars in opposite directions. The Holmnburg mill operates successfully, producing flour of superior quality with minimal heat. Advantages include fewer repairs, lower wages, no scorching risk, reduced fire insurance, and less power required.
The text quotes a dialogue with Colonel Fisk about a woodbine in New England and Garfield asking about money from Corbin, followed by Beecher’s note on three dissipation types. It frames white dissipation as nerve waste, red as excessive pleasures, and black as criminal indulgence, in a dated moral commentary style.
Lavy recalls her first kiss in vivid, sensory terms describing butter, honey and nutmeg flavors. She imagines a rush through her nerves on feet of diamonds, guided by cupids, angels, honeysuckles, and melted rainbows.
A detailed account of Charles D Hildebrand a lifelong criminal born in 1840. From early thefts in St Louis to robberies in Paris London and Montreal, heaped with multiple imprisonments and escapes across the United States Europe and Cuba. The narrative follows his crimes, trials, transports, and eventual vow to reform and publish a book on burglary.
The Raleigh North Carolinian recalls Eng and Chang, born in 1811 near Sism coast, living in western North Carolina. Their mother bore seventeen children, with two surviving twins connected at a single vertical center. The brothers share sensations and movements, rarely converse, yet play draughts and have married with children.
In 1846 condensed milk appeared on the American market, originating with Borden of White Plains. The product is sugar sweetened and hermetically sealed for long transit, while daily milk without sugar keeps for two to four days. One pound of condensed milk equals three to four pounds of natural milk, with seventy five percent of bulk evaporated.
In Gibson County Indiana a 15 year old son named Hedgespeth shot by accident the mother during a quarrel with his father over a dog. The boy was arresed and jailed. In New York Awan was arrested after complaints from over one hundred ladies that he rubbed kerosene oil on their dresses and cloaks on Broadway.
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