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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1871
Page
2
A rustic verse tale recounts a comic frontier scene with an Indian hunter and a steed named Buffalo. The narrator humorously recalls a night chase along a track in Chexunt Gulch, the Indian lassoing the engine as a flare lights the scene, and the spirited ride ending with the horse vanishing in the sky. The speaker confesses mixed feelings about Indians while preserving the wild humor and danger of the pursuit.
A misty September night at Swan's Nest sparks suspicion in Violet as Horace hides a distressing infidelity. After a brutal night of jealousy and self doubt, Violet leaves, later learns the truth about his sister, and endures two years of agony before Horace dies abroad. Her eventual search for peace ends with the shipwreck death of hope and a quiet return to the sea shore.
A moonlit sea scene unfolds as a man returns, wounded by time, to embrace his wife on a misty shore. He reveals he had planned to sail on a steamer that was lost, and his illness kept him away until fate restored their perfect bliss.
The Arizona Territory spans 113 916 square miles and is praised for climate soil and potential wealth. Yet only about 10 000 whites live there with hundreds killed by Apache during 1869 70 and many mines abandoned due to hostile tribes.
A Scribners Magazine excerpt celebrates summer as a universal mother, blessing every patch of earth from backyards to distant glens. It extols flowers blooming without pride, urging readers to plant seeds and trust nature’s return, regardless of urban deprivation or faded fences.
The twelfth juror in the Foster murder case was chosen after a brief qualifications drill. The exchange included questions about reading and writing and the juror answered nothing, after which the judge said that would do and seated him.
A Pittsburg woman visits an elderly widower grieving forty years of marriage. In his lonely room he shows a bright object on his pillow and explains that he sleeps with his deceased wife’s old wrappers, their sleeves wrapped around his neck for comfort. The scene evokes a poignant, intimate expression of enduring love.
A large mastiff went mad in Irvington New Jersey and killed two small dogs while biting several others. Pursued and shot by residents the animal survived and fled until taking refuge in a forge where a blacksmith killed it with a sledge hammer.
An explosion at a cartridge factory on Avenue Rapp caused widespread panic and massive injuries, mostly among women and children. The fire raged with hundreds of thousands of cartridges firing, debris littered streets, and rescue efforts battled to control the blaze as cavalry guarded the area and traffic halted on nearby bridges.
The Mississippi bridge will use arches on rock foundations with about 500 feet spans while the East River suspension bridge features a 1600 foot central span and caissons of 17000 square feet. Both projects symbolize American enterprise and unite East and West.
Spain pursues the Marshal Prim murder in secrecy as Cortes reviews a long minister report. The probe centers on Montpensier‑leaning republicans charged with planning or executing the crime. Roque Barcia is exonerated. other accused names remain undisclosed with more revelations promised.
A Canadian annexation circular promotes joining Canada with the United States and calls a convention at Nisgars Polls on the Fourth of July. It proposes delegates from US districts and British provinces, and depicts the Old Ship Monarchy to symbolize liberty as it will be sent over the falls. It notes 90,000 shoemakers in Pennsylvania.
The Washington Treaty was ratified by a 50 to 7 Senate vote after over eleven hours of debate. Five amendments were offered, three by Mr Sumner, including a sharper arbitration rule on the Alabama claims, all defeated or withdrawn. Canada’s press weighs the pact, with Ontario leaning toward acceptance and Quebec denouncing it as sacrificing Canada’s best interests for Britain. Canada’s dispute over fisheries terms looms large as the Trudeau era debate continues.
A Paris correspondent details the Commune’s forty day finances from March 20 to April 30. Expenditure reached 25,128,000f with war office and intendance taking large shares, while receipts totaled 26,000,000f aided by octroi tobacco stamps and Bank of France lending. The balance rose to 2,000,000f after rail payments, lauding Citizen Jourde for presenting the numbers.
The Middlesex County Women’s Suffrage Association held a convention in Charlestown addressed by William Lloyd Garrison Julia Ward Howe Lucy Stone Marcy P Jackson and other leading advocates. A legislative committee resolution urged leaving the petition for a constitutional amendment withdrawn implying equal suffrage for women should be allowed to vote and run in all elections.
The New Brunswick Legislature unanimously condemned the Treaty of Washington’s fisheries terms. After prorogation, the Lieutenant-Governor’s speech warned of alarm over the commission's findings yet defended not yielding on our invaluable fishery rights, noting potential reciprocal benefits were the treaty altered.
The June issue spotlighting The Jane Magazine covers fifty illustrations and six leading articles with poems and continuations by Oliphant and McDonald. It showcases Governor Langford on Yellowstone, a bridge description at St. Louis, varied travel and science pieces, poetry, and Odd Fellowship notes, published by the A. O. F. Association at 96 Nassau Street New York. It also mentions Cooper's Lady's Book, Emily Huntington Miller titles, Arcum's Magazine, and Dumprey’s Hour for June.
The Congregationalists report 7 Sunday schools with 1,537 scholars and 146 teachers in New York. Presbyterians and Congregationalists urge dropping manuscripts from pulpits. Catholic bishops of Austria and Hungary appeal to the Austrian Emperor over the Roman question. Eminent American scholars invited to revise the Bible. Forty one Presbyterian churches on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. Methodist Church Extension Society spent 110,000 dollars aiding 216 churches with about 250 dollars each. US church related expenditures last year total under eight million for buildings education missions and Bibles. artificial powers spending exceeds 15 million. Ten churches are under construction in Chicago. Three Lynn Massachusetts clergymen visit Europe. Rev E R Gilbert of Wallingford Conn has led the same people for 30 years. London Daily Telegraph ad cites villas in Teddington offering all forms of religious opinion from ceremonial to simple sentiment.
The Philadelphia Stem instructs on health preservation with advice to be kind to relatives, help friends, support capable leaders, rise early, dress neatly, chew food properly, avoid tobacco, and not overeat. It warns soldiers not to rest on laurels and to avoid fuss over rifles.
A wealthy Englishman, brother of the American Consul at Maracaibo, was arrested, placed in irons, and threatened with execution. The American and British consuls deem the act unwarranted by any act of the prisoner and both consuls have been refused a interview with the captive.
The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania made nominations for Auditor General Ges Wim McCandless of Philadelphia for Surveyor General Captain J M Cooke of Lawrence County was elected William A Wallace. Chairmen of the State Central Committee named. The Tennessee cotton crop is destroyed leaving planters seedless to replant.
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