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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1871
Page
6
An abstract lyric describes a ship facing a fierce western wind before a looming storm. A captain battles high waves with the crew seeking shore as a praying wife sleeps, hoping for his safe return at dawn. The refrain proclaims O brave ship and questions whether strength alone saved them.
Reports speak of Hessia Prussia and other powers preparing for conflict while U S politics show no recent re-elections in New York. Elsewhere convicts recaptured Sing Sing and labor unrest in Leeds prompts wage hour demands.
A cable despatch reports severe flooding in Southern Hungary after dam failures on Temes and tributaries. Wheat crops, houses, granaries, and cattle submerged. Hailstorms devastate gardens, vineyards, grain, and tobacco. Excessive tax collection worsens misery. agriculture, trade, and industry ruined. famine looms. Also a quip about Eve and measles ends the note.
A Russian project by engineer Porjetzki proposes using naphtha as vessel fuel to reduce coal reliance. Trials aboard a government schooner showed favorable results, with better steam control and easier storage. The Volga Steam Navigation Co plans adoption, aiming for large daily savings. government support grows.
Charles Fisher ascended in a burning hot air balloon during a circus near Columbus Ohio. Flames burst from the side at about 1 500 feet but the balloon did not burn rapidly. Fisher landed safely atop a slaughter house as the balloon burned on the water and was extinguished.
The Hon. Chas. Howard of New York presented a steam propulsion concept to the State Commission. A scaled canal model shows curved sections, side chains, spars, and braces guiding boats with a side wheel engine driving a line of canal boats. One engine boat carries 160 tons, four others 210 tons, plan to haul Buffalo to Hudson and back with paddles added for speed.
The fragment surveys a sisterly deception in plain speech accusing hollow affection and swindled respect. It cites revenue figures for 1871 from the United States Treasury across spirits tobacco and other sources, then sketches a London Times note about a kite match between Iran and Oudh dynasties. It ends with a comic church moment where a boy shouts about pigs and his papa.
A Victorian etiquette note weighs how to eat green corn at table. It favors gnawing corn from the cob as best practice, notes foreign observers may find it unfashionable, and mentions silver corn handles and knife-for-splitting kernels to ease chewing.
At Saratoga the Longfellow owner John Harper watches his horse drift behind Helmbold after a dramatic final mile. A 40,000 dollar stake shatters Harper’s hope as pandemonium erupts while the crowd celebrates and the old man’s heart breaks.
A veterinary surgeon reports foot and mouth disease breaking out among cattle and hogs in parts of New York. He describes severe oral lesions, drooling, lameness, weight loss, and milk drop in cows, with two hogs dead and others ill. He warns of milk contagion to humans and calls for containment and investigation of origin.
Five years past the American schooner General Sherman loaded at Chefoo with a general cargo and sailed toward Corea. At river mouth in Corean waters the master served as pilot and the vessel’s fate became a mystery after a false report of burning and massacre spread by the pilot. The pilot claimed abandonment on Sept 11, 1866 and Chefoo heard the tale in October. Beyond pilot testimony, no further confirmation has arisen.
A historical account describes how signal service observations track storms from the Rocky Mountains to Newfoundland, detailing how disturbances travel, the speed of atmospheric winds, and the superior speed of rail and telegraph in delivering storm news, with examples from Mount Washington and other locales. It notes balloon altitudes, high-altitude winds, and the influence of surface heat and cold on wind directions.
The Rural New Yorker urges balanced provision for old age through health and wealth. It warns against excesses such as excessive drinking and overworking the eyes, noting aging penalties for health neglect and the value of saving memory, friends, and noble deeds. The piece emphasizes restraint and practical preparation for later life.
The Rothschilds reportedly hire only luck-friendly applicants and reject those with bad luck. San Francisco papers publish a list of 51 wealthy men, with fortunes from one to ten million dollars. Ten are worth over three quarters of a million, and six over a half million.
In Trempealeau County Minnesota two suspected vandals fired on a crowd after burning wheat stacks near Two-mile House. One attacker died instantly, the survivor wounded and jailed in La Crosse, as locals debated lynching him amid a fatal confrontation. The men were known as desperate characters with prior region visits.
Roywerrest describes the cattle disease spreading from the Russian Pacific coast toward Eastern Siberia and Northern China. It could reach Corea, Japan, and possibly America via the Aleutians and Alaska. Dr Macgowan reported to Japan and the U S secretary about Alaska risk. Atlantic protection was noted as inadequate.
The Zeitschrft fur Bidgie summarizes Meyer's experiments on feeding dogs and humans bread alone versus bread with meat. It shows bread alone wastes material, while adding even small meat portions improves flesh retention, and notes white bread absorbs best though less satisfying. It questions bran’s nutritional value and suggests possible gains if nonassimilable matter were removed.
A snapshot of early 20th century social trends notes ten bridesmaids at a Staten Island wedding with no groomsmen, leather paper wall decorations resembling fresco, Parisian mourning among Indies, and sea breeze friendly Chinese crepe dresses. Overskirts extend, underskirts of plain silk show flounces, a Long Branch dress features yellow satin and olive Brazil ian bugs, and bronze boots fade with dampness while polish leaves permanent stains.
Report details the Chautauqua steamship boiler explosion on Lake Chautauqua. About 40 aboard were hurled into the air with some reaching 250 feet. A woman was found drowned standing in six feet of marsh water, book in hand, after the blast.
Professor Forel of Lausanne, after long observation, determines water supply to the Rhone from Lake Geneva. Dufour credits atmospheric condensation on Alps ice and snowfields as the surplus origin. An illustrative experiment with a weasel and ink weighs vapor condensation to estimate actual water carried to the river.
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