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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1871
Page
6
In a quaint garden scene the speaker finds peace amid weathered walls and blooming display. The imagery of a sunlit church, resting couple, and a child with daisies frames a mood of home and serenity as thoughts turn to future cash.
A broad summary notes floods in China, new Utah gold finds, European abortion debates, and rising American coal output. It reports Georgia rice damage, New York money ease, and few New York letter-carriers. Also cited are a London Copenhagen wreck, a fugitive captured in New York, and cotton crop estimates.
Awan, standing near a Galveston wharf, saw a dead man floating in the bay with a large shark feeding. He jumped into a boat to frighten the shark, but it seized the body and escaped. Also notes 1871 livestock totals, frogs up 444,293, sheep down 749,424, and a Washington treaty claim notice. A separate report from Indiana recounts Scott Davis, intoxicated, shooting a man at a social gathering. the victim left a wife and five children.
A Dublin car penters strike prompts a letter to John Stuart Mill. Mill favors trying profit sharing or industrial partnership, arguing it could exceed wage gains and serve as a constructive compromise when strikes risk failing. He notes the local context and individual characters influence guidance.
The article argues meteoric matter originates from interplanetary debris in solar orbits. It details Earth's rotation, planetary bands, and gravitational captures as meteors fall to Earth. It disputes a volcanic or lunar origin and suggests cosmic matter forms worlds from nebulous masses.
A Kansas farmer notes 460 Texas beeves nearly ready for market after travel from Indian Territory last fall. With costs for hay labor and corraling, the venture could yield $9,200 profit at $20 head, and $7,470 net after expenses. A seasoned path suggests starting with 20 Texas cows and a short horn, homesteading prairie land to raise calves, then selling 100 animals yearly for $12,000.
The Chicago grain market sags under a clique of speculators said to corner wheat. Contracts to buy or deliver vast amounts appeared without ownership, forcing prices up and causing losses for long and short interests. Shipping, milling, and farm traders faced ruin as cars and grain could not move, and Illinois laws against fictitious sales proved ineffective.
A Saratoga correspondent laments difficulty discerning ages of young ladies and recalls meeting Mary at fourteen. He recalls a ball dress, later judgment on age, and a wealthy debutante with sixty nine admirers. He contrasts attitudes at Clarendon, praising pedigree over wealth and a pride in Revolutionary lineage. Commerce is deemed vulgar.
A Pensacola memo, copied in pencil by Lillian survivors, reports only three sailors alive after the British ship went down on January 15, 1871 off Brazil. They have drifted six days in an open boat, endured hunger and thirst, and seek a rescue sail while wondering what happened to Captain and the rest.
An eastern traveler in Oregon complains of locals who are well-to-do yet careless and easygoing. He relays a story where he asks for milk at farmhouses and is told cows stay in bottom lands in summer and never come up. He notes lack of enterprise and reacts with only smiles.
The Versailles court martial condemns M Brissy to death as Ferre and Liullier receive the same sentence. Assi Urbain among others are sentenced to prison terms or fined. Antwerp journals laud the Juniata crew for saving 12 people from a Scheldt accident.
A Swiss tale from the Cantons of Grisons recounts a 14 year old shepherd lad defending his flock against a large bear. He fled toward a 2000 foot gorge, leapt to safety, the bear fell to the ravine, and the boy returned to finish off the beast with stones.
A bizarre rail accident on the Burlington and Missouri line near a ditch project left six or more men dead. A cow on the track caused a freight car to derail and topple onto the engine, pinning four workers beneath the wreckage. Two fatalities reported, including the conductor, with several others injured. The engineer was knocked senseless, and the fireman hurt as the car fell across the locomotive.
A journalist reports a growing plan in England to kill prominent individuals using poisoned food. Anonymous gifts of cakes, sweets, and fruit, sometimes with playful notes, have delivered deadly substances like strychnine. A Brighton case features Miss Edwards, 35, accused of poisoning attempts on Mrs. Beard, wife of a local physician, with chocolate drops and a suspected parallel outbreak in the town.
Nearly four thousand female offenders with tickets of leave roam England, mostly in London. Many have long criminal histories from petty theft to murder, yet after twelve years and approval by prison authorities a murderess can obtain freedom as a ticket of leave. In fashionable London districts hundreds of domestic servants are ticket of leave women, often employed with full knowledge of their past. Some worst criminals become reliable servants after reform.
In a Canada paper four French fishermen near Ket tle Island on Saturday afternoon hooked a large fish weighing about thirty-five pounds. An eagle dived and grabbed the fish with its talons, but the Frenchman pulled in both fish and bird, and now possesses the eagle.
A tobacco raiser advises that twelve leaves per plant suffice, and to top the plant as soon as flower buds appear. He recommends removing lower leaves that lie on the ground and keeping suckers off to grow very strong tobacco.
Fall imports feature plaids and tartans in colorful combinations suited for children and young girls. Cashmere Thibet cloth sells for 3.50 a yard, with tighter grades at 2.50. English lus tres and silk wrap balermo poplins appear at various prices, plus Mohair Cicilian cloth and black mohair options. Soft wool shawls and plaid squares range from 4.50 to 6, with Leonora and Jacquard shawls priced around 6. Fall wraps and velvet polonaises draw high prices for lace and embroidery, while opulent opera cloaks showcase blue velvet borders and tassels.
A lengthy New Caledonia piece recalls the convict colony begun in 1864 with 200 prisoners from Toulon near Toumen, notes low mortality versus Cayenne, and a ticket of leave plan sending convicts to Boyaie. It warns a future influx of discontented Paris workers could require troops, and cites a failed Noumea cooperative farm experiment in 1864 as evidence that settlement prosperity remains elusive.
A correspondent asks why their goldfish die in a glass jar. They are fed too little and starve, despite daily water changes. Fish in globes need feeding at least twice a week, with paste sold by bird and fancy fish dealers. When water is continually changed as in fountains, fish may find food themselves.
It is a fact not generally known that all the gold sent east from San Francisco now goes through the mail bar. It is put up in small boxes weighing two or three pounds and sent as registered letters. Transport costs run about one percent while express firms charge five. A hundred thousand dollars passes through the Omaha Post Office daily.
The text argues that many act against reason through ignorance and undeveloped faculties. It asks who can claim not to know the right while pursuing the wrong, and whether passions pilot or derail the self. It reflecting on education of faculties and excuses used to cover wrong choices.
A West Virginia paper recounts an 1870 case where a neighbor shot a goat after it trespassed. Y sued for damages and a series of trials and juries ended with a $12.10 verdict for X, costs mounting as multiple trials continued.
The New York Tribune notes many Alice Bowlsbys and other women hidden by abortions. It questions how many pretty lives bear secret guilt, and speaks of ruined futures, guilt, and the fear of discovery behind the era’s medical advertisements and public indignation.
A compact history traces Sunday from Saxon sun worship to Christian memory of light and the resurrection. It notes early Jewish Sabbath persistence waned in the Western Church and Constantine’s 321 edict halting public labor, with Laodicea 360 and Theodosius reinforcing the interdiction.
The passage records vague timing phrases “two weeks before the last circus” and “three weeks after the last circus” used to indicate dates. It preserves the quirky timing reference without clear specifics or names.
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