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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1871
Page
6
Tom Shelly rises from a chores-boy to partner in Dunning and Shelly through a secret plan tied to Lucy Ware. He hides Lucy’s missing button as a talisman and pursues invention while Lucy’s flirtation masks a wary distance. A New Year party tests vows and love in a bustling Victorian town.
In a playful scene Lucy Ware and Tom clash over a valued button Tom kept from a grease shop. He reveals love and vows to win her, offering devotion and a changed future as he vows to repay the loss with a lasting bond. The confession closes a long bit of romantic game theater.
The excerpt presents Farmer Ashfield at a table with ale and a pipe, debating market news with Dame Ashfield. Dialogue contrasts Ashfield with Dame Grundy and joke about Mrs Grundy, hinting at satirical social commentary from Tom Morton’s comedy.
A Paris correspondent describes a powerful Commune delegate at the Northern Railway Station who can bar exits yet tries to aid foreigners. He exposes a passport trick that escaped travelers used, prompting tighter controls. Other items note Richard King’s Texas cattle empire, a Wyoming County circus riot, and various snippets on ships, livestock, and agriculture from 1870.
A Baltic Sea incident aboard the bark Propitence from Hartlepool forced all hands to pump amid exhaustion. A knot in a plank opened a hole, which was then plugged by a fish’s body, stopping the leak. After reaching port, the cargo was discharged and the ship inspected.
A Methodist pastor was asked to speak after 9 P M at a Sabbath school anniversary. He asked the 250 children if they preferred to go home and hear his talk. Most cried ayes and left, prompting the speaker to close with a benediction.
A Hartford Courant story describes a young couple unable to afford Dickens readings who sacrifice their own tickets to fund a poorer family. The neighbors attend instead, a grand distraction in their town. Separately a German Peace procession in Philadelphia lasts three hours along Third and Chestnut streets with about 20 000 participants in vehicles and on horseback.
A fierce clash occurred in the Panache Mountains about twenty miles from Gilroy between a band of desperados and the sheriff’s posses from Alameda and Santa Clara counties. Juan Sotw, a notorious outlaw accused of murdering three Frenchmen in the Simar valley, was killed by officers after fierce resistance. The remaining Mexicans fled on horseback, leaving one warrior mortally wounded and a prisoner in custody.
A Kilbourn City paper reports three weeks of vast pigeon flocks over Wisconsin. On April 22 pigeons formed a single darkened mass for about two hours, drawing crowds and inspiring trapping, barrel making, and busy men, women, and children. Birds are shipped to Milwaukee Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Philadelphia New York and Boston, with ten to thirty thousand birds sent daily.
Vincent Micas and Petro Abriel were hanged in the Parish Prison yard in New Orleans for murdering a sailor about a year ago. They robbed him and threw his body into the river. Bayonne called out Carajo and spat at the crowd before death. The governor refused commutation despite pleas from Spanish, English, Belgian and French consuls.
The west shows mixed crop prospects with some farmers optimistic about large harvests while others report damage from cold snaps and excess rain. Overall grain remains abundant enough to profit growers, and the winter crop is expected to be large with favorable spring conditions likely to boost yields.
Lieut W B Cushing and 20 men of the 3d Cavalry are defeated by Apache chief Cuchies and 50 warriors near the Waitestone mountains south east of Tucson. Cushing and one soldier killed. remnants retreat to Camp Crittenden. Capts Sanwood and Moore lead 40 men each in pursuit. Forage train attacked near Camp Verde. one Mexican killed, another wounded, 87 cattle captured. Political notes say Ohio gubernatorial chair already declined by both parties.
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