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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1871
Page
2
A cryptic excerpt blends archaic diction and fragmented lines. The text veers between nature imagery and odd neologisms, creating a surreal, dreamlike fragment that resists straightforward interpretation and yields little concrete narrative.
A garbled chronology covers crime, politics, economics, and disasters. It notes 2062 police area counts in New York, a presidential vote for a veterinary post, a pardon in Washington, pensions around 205,282 and related state conventions, railway and tunnel projects, post office shipments, and various drownings, fires, and accidents. It resembles a sprawling panoply of late 19th century events with scattered names, places, and numbers.
Seventeen year old Joan McCormick, eldest daughter of a wealthy widow in DeKalb County Illinois, is killed at supper when farm hand John Reed shoots through a window after she refuses to join a Fourth of July celebration. Reed fled after firing two shots, one of which killed. posse formed, messengers sent toward rail stations toward Aurom and Chicago.
Nest making by a small African warbler is detailed as a moss flax and grass foundation pressed into a firm felt, with sides added and compacted by the bird’s body and wings. A second note reports that in the Twe French elections the army backed Republican Gambetta candidates for the Assembly.
The New York Chamber of Commerce reports a 37 percent rise in petroleum exports in 1870, with 33 percent of that rise from New York. U S exports reached 141,208,155 gallons, up from 1.5 million in 1860 and 99,281,000 in 1868, signaling a rapid, steady ten year growth. Pennsylvania oil district output rose from 10,400 gallons in 1867 to 15,214 in 1870, underscoring regional abundance and a yearly consumption around 211,009,000 gallons valued at over 42 million dollars at 20 cents per gallon.
Dr W E Johnston cites official Seine figures for June showing Paris with 1250 deaths that week, London 1393, plus 16 smallpox cases in Paris and 229 in London. Comparisons to 1870 indicate Paris healthier, no epidemic, though many deaths unspecified. Also reports a bloody Eaton Rapids fight sparked by a ticket denial ending with a man killed.
A crude colonial rant portrays Indian natives burning, hanging, and nearly burning accused witches for alleged liver-eating. The narrator condemns their progress as uncivilized and cites two sensational cases where victims faced swings and potential immolation, with English intervention noted in one case.
A lighthearted scene shows a wife bonneted and shawled at a doorway as she offers to shop for her lord. He asks what to bring, she replies freely that she does not want to be brought any debt. The brief exchange ends with a kiss and a reminder to avoid debt.
The Coolies rise and wash in scalding water each morning, a practice that would burn an American if attempted. After daily labors, they repeat the same rinsing ritual before sleep, highlighting harsh daily routines.
A Russian traveler sketches a Gypsy band in the Caucasus, noting their wanderings, occupations like horse-trading theft and fortune telling, and villagers’ belief in necromancy sparked by portraits. The piece discusses Romany origin, appearance, and widespread presence across Europe Asia and America.
The Prescott mixer recounts a 56 Apache slaughter after Bowers Co. herdsmen were killed and their herd seized. A pursuit by 16 citizens and Lt. Morton’s Third Cavalry led to two rancherias, 21 and 23 Indians killed respectively, four captured horses, and eventual retreat to Camp McDowell after exhausting provisions.
A Greene County resident recounts a curious snake catching method by fishing for water snakes with baited hooks. He hooks and subdues multiple snakes, boasting he could catch them faster than some men unhook them, after an amusing sequence involving an alligator and a water snake.
A Stratific Americar correspondent describes a silicified bird nest with eyes preserved in natural size, and glassy twig-like nest components. Eggs appeared thickened with shells partly preserved as glassy interiors, found in Nichols and Ennis's You Bet mining district, from a fossil tree fork after ages of burial.
The Lakeport Cal. jail court witnessed the execution of Indizsa Tom, murderer of Daniel Wedig. He claimed Indians Francisco and Jim aided the crime, then faced the scaffold with calm resolve and urged others to repent and live righteously before death.
The United States army totals about 30,000 men in forty regiments with ten cavalry and five artillery units. It runs over 300 posts and 2,277 commissioned officers. General Sherman earns the highest salary at 13,500 dollars, while second lieutenant pay is 1,400 a year. The Quartermaster’s Department buys 2,000,000 bushels of corn and oats, 193,000 cords of wood, 30,000 tons of coal, and moves 100,000 tons of stores. There are 95,000 horses and mules, some routes requiring 800 miles of hauling. West Point costs 220,000 dollars yearly. There is an artillery school at Fortress Monroe and a torpedo school at Willett’s Point, N Y. On June 12, 133,266 soldiers widows were on the Pension Office rolls.
Judge Mal Jory of Milwaukee sentences a confessed prisoner to life and argues that widespread pardons encourage crime by promising only brief incarceration. He says aggravated, cold blooded crimes could justify a death penalty if it were legal, urging reconsideration of the death code.
In Alabama a guano dealer boasts of a farmer who tucked a sample in his pocket and rode home on horseback. His horse balked, revealing the tack had grown into a long bar of railway iron, illustrating the rival's supposed superiority in guano quality.
A San Francisco pauper account discusses Chinese burial practices and beliefs about restless spirits. The dying are moved to an empty house, left to die, and later moved to morgues or hospitals until relatives can arrange proper rites and pay debts, reflecting strict cultural protocols and Confucian ceremonies.
English farming shifts to traction engines for ploughing and harrowing. A three-man, three-boy crew manages a two-arm plough with four shares, pulled by a rope and drum system as the engine moves along the field creating furrows. An orderly, flag guided sequence yields acre per hour progress.
The article details knife making from heated steel to final tempering. It notes a blade passes through multiple heating, forging, shaping, tang fitting, stamping, grinding, hardening, quenching, tempering, and extensive finishing. The number of hands varies with desired finish and blade quality.
The text notes ninety nine societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals operating in various countries. England has led the effort for sixty years with twenty seven societies founded. America began five years ago and twenty three States have formed similar associations.
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