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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1883
Page
7
A terse verse from a Journal entry presents a speaker denying memories of a past love. The poem contrasts proclaimed indifference with hints of future commitment as the narrator vows to rename and cherish a future wife. The tone is intimate and reflective, with oblique references to love and devotion.
In 1871 India a crocodile attacks village women by river for their silver bangles, prompting British Commissioner Sparks to employ Ismail the Mahratta detective. Ismail tracks the culprit, jams a noose trap, then ambushes and captures the robber, earning a thousand rupees and commendation.
A reflective note observes that many youths seek originality through dress or speech and end up offending peers while pleasing foes. It suggests conforming to prevailing custom as the wiser path, trusting collective wisdom to guide what is best.
In Agra region, sixty five children aged from a few months to four years were reportedly taken by wolves during hot weather and rains. Ravines along the Jumna and Chumbal rivers are infested, and the wolves seem to be growing bolder each year.
A San Francisco item notes a warm frost-free belt along the Sierra Valley at fifty to one hundred feet altitude, capable of producing hardy fruits to great perfection. A Denver boy sued his father for money and received a judgment.
Frequent urges emphasize shelters that protect from storms rather than cold, and highlight food as the key. Proper housing should be tight but ventilated, with dry floors, allowing optional use. Feeding shifts from green to dry foods, with roots like sugar beet and turnips as main winter staples, plus a fat forming emphasis and a Randall formula ground linseed wheat bran flour of bone mix for growing animals and lactating ewes.
Bill Arp argues parents and teachers should be patient with children不同 abilities and memory. Slow learners deserve time, while diligent effort at home boosts ambition and school engagement. He recalls walking miles to school and praises steadfast teachers, mothers, and student effort.
A reminiscence on childhood dreams and moral guidance cites Robinson Crusoe Oliver Goldsmith and Ben Franklin. It argues slow but steady growth, careful parenting, and avoiding abuse or punitive neglect, urging boys to keep hands clean and seek gentleness over judgment.
Ellen Terry bonnets and slippers are displayed with white kid bonnets trimmed in pearl bead-work and hand painted flowers. Opera pelerines in white Ziblin ette with white ostrich tips, worn with dark blue, ruby or dove-gray velvet outfits, define the season. Velvet and velveteen dominate, with tunic blouse draped diagonally, high shoulder sleeves, and waist designs echoed from mid centuries. News adds that Kate Townsend’s will leaves over two hundred thousand dollars to her murderer, recalling Dickensian lore of Nancy and Bill Sykes.
The American Register argues the Republican party, desperate for a leader, turns to General William Sherman. It portrays him as candid, unambitious, and unwilling to seek political power, warning that using him would damage his legacy and fail to restore party strength. It claims the party should instead choose a candidate from among those who have already disgraced the party.
A Baltimore court holds that a husband may be sued for the slander uttered by his wife. The decision establishes liability based on the marital relationship, framing the husband as responsible for her spoken defamatory statements.
Georgis faces two hundred dollar charges for each circus exhibition, reflecting strict enforcement of ticketing or permit rules. The case outlines the financial penalties imposed on organizers for each event held without compliant authorization.
This piece defends the Democratic Party’s role since the Civil War, arguing restraint on power saved the Union and criticizing Republican excess. It cites Bayard on constitutional liberty, warns against enfranchisement without education, and predicts Democrats will again be seen as the party of the Constitution and unity.
A clipped excerpt from the Boston Post references the phrase party of the people and the abiding principle of a republican form of government. The legibility is limited, presenting as a brief political quotation without full context.
The piece analyzes the 1884 electoral college prospects, listing state by state votes and classifying the solid South as Democratic. It argues Ohio, New York, Indiana and California as pivotal, with Democrats aiming to assemble 213 votes if Northern and Southern states align. It cites recent Democratic momentum in several states and notes battlegrounds in New York, Ohio, Indiana, California and others. It ends with a relic note about old paper money found in Philadelphia.
George Hancock of Suffield Conn recently finished a work using a common jackknife two inches in diameter representing three stars and containing 63 pieces. The points are inlaid. He is building a box with 4052 distinct pins and is only half complete, plus many other handy works he fashions in spare hours.
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