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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1872
Page
2
A reflective Sunday verse speaks of longing for absent friends and divine comfort. The speaker imagines heavenward rest, the soft lifting of sorrow, and joyful memory as loved ones appear in a quiet, spiritual solace. The tone is intimate and elegiac, with imagery of dawn, wings, and a strained faith seeking peace.
An officer narrates a confession of crime and desire, detailing a jewel theft linked to a desertion and treacherous court proceedings. The narrator recounts his fall from ambition, the murder of a comrade, and a final truth that triggers a dramatic awakening after a nightmarish vision.
A historic river obstacle, the Red River raft, spans hundreds of miles and rolls driftwood upstream. Government attempts begun in 1833 failed after 22 years, leaving waterways opened only to side channels. The raft slowly advances about a mile or two yearly as new timber joins the upper end. Some scholars speculate the timber might later form a coal bed.
In the Senate Schurz refutes a New York paper's charges. Proposals aim to regulate interstate commerce and grant 4,000,000 acres to the District of Columbia for public schools. Kellogg's resolution to suspend rules failed 71 to 0. Morgan proposed a constitutional amendment to allow naturalized citizens to hold the Presidency and Vice Presidency. the joint resolution failed by a margin of 61 to 8. Niblack urged inquiries into bounties for soldiers. the measure passed.
In the summer near Quincy Illinois Ballou, adopted by the Golden family, wooed Clara Golden and deceived her father with claims of a lucrative stock sale. He procured cash and notes, then fled with funds, later returning to marry Clara, and persuaded the father to deed him a farm. Investigations traced Ballou to Texas where the corpse of young Holden was found, the result of a brutal murder to gain property. Ballou was convicted as evidence mounted, while Clara Ballou, newlywed and betrayed, lies mentally ruined by the tragedy.
A Frenchman in New Orleans style narration loses a thousand dollars at draw poker and reacts with fury to insults about a pokaire. He later vents on hotel staff, demands a fire, declares he quits the house, and storms downstairs convinced that poker dominates St. Louis business.
A Paris pamphlet by M Emile details the Cabinet Noir the empire era for opening letters. Simonel the head opener used a sharp knife to slit seals then warmed or wetted seals to reseal. Foreign mail bags faced the same fate as domestic letters under surveillance and inspection.
A Titusville man, in a dying statement, narrates a tangled family history that makes him both husband and grandfather. He describes marriages within his kin that lead to him being his own grandfather and says there was no reason to die for such a reason.
The Sing Sing male prison measures 484 by 42 by 50 feet with 1 191 cells, often crowded to force two inmates per cell. A separate women's facility houses 119 cells. Last year 473 new male inmates arrived, including a range of professions from actors to clerks, merchants, and officials, with many earning starvation wages cited by officials.
An old farmer with an ax and a small dog chased a woodchuck into a stone well. The woodchuck pulled the dog partially from the well while the farmer waited to strike. The woodchuck pulled the dog fully in and killed him, and the farmer recalls the dog’s fate forty years later.
The city of Paris plans a new guillotine described as shorter in use. An instrument has been ordered from a carpenter on Boulevard du Prince Eugene. Weindreich, Paris executioner, faced trouble finding a workman. The device will be painted black and use a new sliding plank system.
After the reception a bride slips into her oldest black silk dress and, with her newly made husband, quietly leaves by the back stairs and basement door. They jump into a carriage and depart for a wedding tour without bidding anyone farewell.
The report states Tom German will be commissioned to enforce national claims against the government of Venezuela. It also notes Titusville asserts Nilsson's voice matches the flow of the heaviest lubricating oil in musicality.
A North Carolina hunter pursued a large animal in the “low lands” under a November moon. After climbing trees to escape dogs, he finally shot the creature, described as the biggest raccoon and a large tiger cat known locally as “will eat.”
In Western New York a new oil manuscript by Elam Crane widens the Red Jacket anecdote. It recalls a visit to a Canandaigua house where dinner is delayed and a girl serves meat with flies. Red Jacket immediately shoots the meat with his rifle to illustrate his habit of killing Iris meat before he eats.
The article reviews Professor Silliman’s analysis of a vintage French brandy beverage described as an “exhilerator.” It lists ingredients including aluminum, iron, sulfuric acid, an enzymatic oil, tannic acid, Guinea pepper, lead, and copper, noting their richness and diversity and implying adulteration concerns that deterred drinkers from competing beverages of the era.
Two trunk mystery investigations are under way with alleged ties to the Rosenzweig case. One report from Quebec describes a box at a railway station containing a mutilated, rapidly decomposing female body. An arrest has been made in connection with the Tatter case and additional particulars have emerged.
The article records THz coolies in Cuba must lease themselves to planters after 1870, earning $12 monthly while others receive $17. It also notes Miners' Journal estimates of anthracite coal output at fifteen and a half million tons for last year, with nineteen million tons projected for 1872.
A woman who refused to give after a charity sermon reported having her pocket picked as she left the church. Upon discovering the theft she quipped that she could not find the way to her pocket but the devil did, reflecting her sharp wit.
The Common Council opposed lighting the city streets arguing it would reveal thieves when watched, making it harder to catch them. The debate centered on safety and night-time surveillance concerns in the Indiana town.
A Louisville blacksmith named Veith leaned on a forge bellows after blowing out the fire. The bellows filled with gas and ignited, causing a loud explosion that ripped the bellows apart and hurled iron missiles around the shop. Veith escaped serious injury, though he was badly frightened.
The Bois de Boulogne, devastated in the late war, is to be replanted with forest trees grown for fifteen years. Transplanting mature trees is costly and difficult, presenting a major challenge to the restoration effort.
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