14 Oct 1870
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Newspaper
Kokomo Journal
Location
Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1870
Page
1
The item states a weekly Friday publication by The Journal Company with T Montgomery as printer and a yearly advance price of 1 75 dollars. It also provides office location over Kraus and Rosenthal’s store on the Public Square.
Howard Circuit Court meets on the fourth Monday of May and November with Judge John Davis. Common Pleas Court sits fourth Monday in February June and September led by Judge Wm Garver. Commissioners Court on first Mondays June September December and March and second Monday in April as Board of Equalization. Officials include H L Moreland, Stratton and Jerome Brown Commissioners. Auditor Luther Gray, Clerk H H Winslow, Treasurer Harvey Brown, Sheriff Joseph Taylor, Recorder Samuel Richey, Surveyor Benjamin Field, School Examiner R Vaile. City of Kokomo: Mayor J W Cooper, Marshal A Hi Duke, Assistant Marshal C Bechtel, Treasurer W A Beeks, Clerk J F Elliott, Assessor FE A Moore, Chief Fire Dept H C Cole. Councilmen J A James, J A Uaggard, Ward No 1 A J Norton, Thomas Jay, A F Armstrong, G W Pierson, W E Robinson.
Go south and north service shows times for Chicago Express and Mail routes. Through trains run Indianapolis to Pittsburgh and onward to Philadelphia New York and Baltimore with through sleeping cars nightly. Express and Fast Line operate daily except Sundays.
Friixps First day meeting in second story Wildman's block with school at 4 am missionary school at 3 pm Bible class at 4 pm evening meeting at 7 o clock. Pressyremax Rev Mr Hutchison pastor meets in Wilson's Hall every Sunday at 10 am and 7 pm with Sunday School at 2 pm and prayer Thursday evening. Coxerecation Rev D J Baldwin pastor services every Sunday at 10 2m and 74 pm Sunday School at 2 pm and prayer Thursday evening. Mrrnopist Eriscopan Rev W Wilson pastor services at 10 am and 7 pm Sunday School at 2 pm prayer Thursday evening. Cunistrax Elder E L Frazier pastor services at 10 am and 74 pm Bible class Monday evening Sunday school 2 1 pm and prayer Wednesday evening.
Schedules show various named entities like Koxono Lovgs No 93 meeting on a Saturday near the full moon and Napruart Loper Fairfield meeting on Thursday near the moon. Other entries include weekly Tuesday Witomax Lopce and Monday meetings, plus Saturday after the full moon Grosertown Lopee.
A fragmented 19th century listing shows multiple Kokomo Indiana lawyers and notaries public offering prompt service. Firms include C D Murray J H Krow H A Brouse M Garrigus ERN Elliott and S W Kern A F Elliott Janes W Robinson with noted collections and offices on the public square.
A poetic meditation where nature is a perpetual litany of prayer and praise. The sea, mountains, trees, and winds become churchly figures, reflecting reverence in earth and sky. The poem contrasts nature's continuous worship with human forgetfulness, celebrating nature as a temple and chorus of prayer.
The article recalls the 870 Verdun era and the division of Charlemagne’s empire, then shifts to critique Modern Spiritualism. It cites a Telegraph piece on a planned new government blending Monarchy and Republic, selects pivots across the United States, and warns of a theocratic democratic rise guided by mediumistic influence. It contrasts this with Salem Witchcraft and cautions readers about spiritualist schemes.
The International Exhibition commissioners invite architectural societies to cooperate by sending models plans and elevations of educational buildings. They will allocate normal space for architectural works and provide a supplementary allotment specifically for school building designs.
A reflective piece on selfless courage and civic duty cites Archdeacon Hare’s Trinity College lecture example where a student volunteers to wade into floodwater. The tale contrasts noble action with cowardice and praises readiness to help when needed. It also includes a science note on toads and frogs feeding, a Harper’s Monthly citation, and a humorous grammar anecdote from Greenville Alabama about parsing the sentence Mary milks the cow.
The author denounces men driven by personal gain who switch loyalties and vilify benefactors for crumbs of power. Such beings are described as degraded, roaming from one position to another, until they are expelled from the world.
In Webster style humor, Salem Third District shows no praise for a decayed school. The grand list is $120000 and the current school house, judged unfit as stable decades ago, will be repaired for up to $150 after multiple town meetings about building a new one.
The article notes the 1844 Washington to Baltimore telegraph line and the Postmaster General’s warning that revenues may never cover costs. It also reports French paleontologists finding five mammoth-era skeletons in Dordogne, suggesting a gorilla-sized race, but skulls imply large brains.
Lewis Tappan recalls John Hancock as overrated yet generous, noting his ostentation and deceit in business and politics. The memoir details Hancock forcing lawsuits, anecdotes of court defiance, and a breakfast invitation to Massachusetts senators met with the cows milk joke, plus remarks on other public figures of the era.
A humorous anecdote shows a haughty young beauty demanding an introduction to a student’s eccentric friend. After a delayed intro, Catharine surveys L. with a glare and bluntly orders, Trot him off, John, then asserts that that is enough.
The article traces Strasbourg from its founding as Argentoratum under the Romans, through Attila’s sack, medieval growth under Charlemagne, and its 1681 seizure by Louis XIV. It notes Luther and Calvin’s stays, the 1848 ceded claim by France, and repeated shifts of control amid continual regional strife.
A Paris correspondent recalls meetings where a patriotic chemist proposed a plan to defeat enemies with stink bullets. The bullets, plum sized, would explode when thrown releasing a fatal odor. The inventor offered a live demonstration, but the assembly declined to witness it.
At the Treasury Department a report that Brigham Young arrived with many wives caused a rush of clerks and visitors in the Assessor Covington district. Nine ladies accompanied an escort as crowds filled corridors and stairs in a 20 minute frenzy before officials clarified the scene.
A quirky analogy likens fossils and vaults of wealth to toads sealed in rocks. It says deposits clog openings and trap creatures in darkness until a chance event frees them. The passage concludes that overturning one such “mountain” can unleash a living man.
An Alleghanny county pastor spoke on an evening lecture titled Hunting an Appetite. The large audience listened as the pastor, noting he had received no salary for six months, jokily added that the sexton would collect something for him to hunt an appetite with.
The new liquor law in New Hampshire requires liquor dealers to cover property damage caused by intoxicated customers. Dealers who refuse payment face fines from 50 to 500 dollars. The text also includes an unrelated aphorism about adversity and discipline.
An economical man who bought a cent too small for himself did not resell it as advised but chose to let it out wisely.
A man in a crowded area shouted to a neighbor that he was sinete his revolver, causing a loud scare and prompting onlookers to create distance while authorities investigated the disturbance.
Daniel Webster recalls a case in which a Massachusetts Insurance Company faced a large claim after a ship burned. General Arnold Wells met a sharp eyed claimant who challenged the plan with a telling exchange of glances. The uneasy interview ended with the claimant leaving without pursuing payment.
A California correspondent reports an exceptionally dry season, noting that drought grips Southern California like the rest of the nation. Old settlers say nothing like it in twenty years, leaving barren scenery though irrigation shows soil fertility in gardens and nearby lands. With ample water, the region could become highly fruitful, as citrus and other crops thrive, while apples pears and peaches may fare better further north.
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