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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1872
Page
6
A fragmentary poem-like passage laments a sacred tree. It mentions Weedman and Marie and evokes vows, shade, and a plea to spare the beeching tree while honoring distant memories and whispered love. The text blends nature imagery with personal names in a nostalgic tone.
A lengthy report summarizes papers and queries from attendees on farming methods. Topics include cow management, plowing theory, manure applications, grafting grafts, clover and wheat practices, feed for horses, government grain policies, seed sprouting, and nut storage. Names and places such as Henry Stewart, Marionsville ME, A C Fisk, Nastick Brass, Natick Brass appear among varied rural agrarian inquiries and experimental notes.
A hunting party led by A Ovrin Z Whitford embarked with four companions in November from Osldand Dys. Heavy rain then snow and cold followed, and five men were found frozen to death after an eight day search. Whitford, an Odd Fellow and former member of Company A Thirty-sixth Illinois Cavalry, perished along with three others. The rescue party recovered victims including Whitford’s body and pocket book.
A brutal act in New Ross Ireland saw miscreants saturate a Newfoundland dog with paradive oil and set fire to him. The dog, tormented by the flames, ran through the town seeking refuge in a haystack before the blaze spread. Authorities vow to punish the perpetrators.
Emily H. Moore portrays a model home within a lush rural dreamscape. Seville describes a verdant region with forests, streams, cottages, a grand barn, dairy, sugar house, orchards, and grazing cattle, culminating in a pleasant house with firelight rooms and a parterre view toward a distant city spire.
A narrator describes a tired watcher by a window seeing a woman as the mistress of a farm. The room and house feel hers, her presence guiding duty and leisure with calm efficiency. The wife is portrayed through gentle, domestic scenes from piano to kitchen.
A New York fashion journal notes a wealthy heiress wears a wedding gown of white tulle without lace. The dress features a substantial net foundation, seventeen tulle ruffles, orange blossom sprays, and a silk understructure with multiple petticoats. total cost around 490 dollars.
Soldiers report officers degrading treatment physical threats and sworn at actions while funds saved in each company allegedly manipulated by unscrupulous officers. Army and Navy Journal urges strict justice along with discipline, noting soldiers’ rights must be sacred and overstated offenses are possible in sensitive cases.
A vivid critique from Scribner's February issue on home warmth and comfort. It compares hot water and steam systems, noting ills from overheated rooms and the fog of unhealthy air. It argues for better ventilation, vigilance, and a healthier balance of heat and air.
An old farmer explains his boys stayed home while others left by providing useful reading material and nightly study. He notes those with books at home grew up to stay on the farm, while others fled at seventeen or eighteen seeking city life. He advocates affordable reading and art to make farming life appealing and self reliant.
A bill by Representative Duell of New York would suspend the 50 percent clause in the 1868 Bankrupt Law until 1873 to permit discharges for petitions filed before then though assets need not meet 50 percent. It also cuts proceedings expenses in involuntary cases and removes extra allowances for assignees attorneys and messengers. A Worthington Ohio woman reportedly struck her husband then accidentally killed a nearby child.
A discussion on how muscles lose power and the order of sensory loss. It notes that sight is the first sense abolished, even with open eyelids, and that taste disappears first among senses, followed by smell, hearing, and touch as the most persistent. It adds that tonal cues wake a person most easily, then smell.
Inpisy Justice reports that near Wrightstown two white men encountered an Indian during a hunting quarrel. The Indian shot one man but did not kill. After threats of lynching, the Indian was turned over to locals who found him guilty and sentenced him to death. He was hanged at once.
A $5 contribution to the conscience fund arrived at the U S Treasury from a woman who had smuggled a silk dress pattern through New York Custom House. Earlier Chicago police commissioners voted to cut their salaries from $3000 to $500, a notable reduction.
The U S Senate Judiciary Committee argues that the fourteenth amendment secures voting rights to male and female citizens only where the states cannot deny suffrage. It contends Congress can enforce the amendment and that the fifteenth and fifteenth amendments carve out state powers, leaving female suffrage as a debated, unsettled issue. The report notes that the committee focuses on current constitutional rights, not a broader call to amend the constitution. A related item reports a diphtheria case in Lewiston and a deadly engine explosion in Middletown Branch, Pennsylvania.
The will of Col. Fisk has not been presented to the surrogate for probate. Debts and the widow’s one third dower will absorb much of his estate, possibly leaving little to satisfy a $100,000 bequest and two $2,000 annual annuities. Opera house income and Erie Railroad claims complicate payment, delaying probate and reflecting overestimated wealth.
A Chambers Journal writer explains caterwauling with a tale of a wall between lovers and a clever cat. Theophile Gautier recounts a parrot left with a cat who misreads a green chicken, scenes of feline stealth, alarm, and the bird’s alarmed cry Have you breakfasted Jack. The cat concludes misreading, hides under the bed in fear of breakfast and neglect.
The New Jersey Grand Lodge debated admitting colored men, revoking the Alpha Lodge of Newark’s charter then voting 1112 to 108 to renew its privileges after hours of discussion led by the Grand Master.
The widow of Sir John Franklin offers a reward of $10,000 for records or information about the ships Erebus and Terror, believed to have been deposited in King William's Land.
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