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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1883
Page
7
Poem fragment from Julia H May in Christian Union reflecting on unknown fate and mortality. The speaker muses on who will die first and whether expressing love or following God's plan matters, concluding they cannot know and must endure the same path until parting or greeting.
In Country Gentle Ralph Winslow Weisser, M D explains salamanders as urodelans related to fishes, not lizards, with life histories including eggs laid outside the body and aquatic or damp hatching. They vary from small brown tritons to large Japanese salamanders, live in North America, and display color changes with light. They are carnivorous, survive loss of limbs, and face enemies like fish and birds. some species hibernate or freeze in northern climates.
A Madras trail correspondent recounts Mr Scott in Mysore District near Mangalum killing a grand tiger. With a pen rifle and light gear he mistook a roar for elephants and faced the stalking animal in a dried watercourse. He fired at twelve paces, striking the tiger in the eye and brain, earning praise for nerve and cool aim under perilous conditions.
A Star dispatch recalls boy heroes who woke hotel guests during Atlanta's Kimball House blaze and saved lives, while noting small boys can be mischievous yet capable of courage. The piece cites other youths who aided in escapes, urging encouragement of boys for future utility. It closes with a note from the Troy Times about Hymus Eastman and family ties.
A visitor to a cage-making shed notes the modern pyrotechnic craft. Barrels hold arsenite copper and chlorate compounds for colors and brightness, with dangerous mixes like nitrate of strontia and sulfur. Roman candles, rockets, and color balls are carefully charged to ensure uniform, dramatic displays amid complex factory work.
The article explains making a paper car wheel from rye straw board, pressed under heat to form a core inside a steel shell with an elastic, durable wheel. It notes the wheel’s elasticity extends mileage, contrasting with ordinary iron wheels, and describes the assembly details and testing. It also mentions Boise residents finding rich gold ore while rock-hunting with a claw-hammer on a mountain ledge and an offer of 21,000 for a half interest.
A Detroit Post and Tribune summary notes William Marwood the English public executioner died recently leaving no authorized hangman in Great Britain or Ireland. Marwood, a shoemaker by trade, boasted of a painless method but had botched a Durham execution. His career spanned nearly four hundred deaths with an annual income near 20 000 in addition to boot and shoe work and leather sales. His wax figure and notoriety grew, yet ancient hangmen and harsher punishments faded as capital punishment potentially ends in the century.
This obituary outlines Humphrey Marshall from Kentucky a burly congressman and former colonel of a volunteer dragoon regiment. It notes his West Point background his immigration to law and his wartime service at Buena Vista his time in Congress his shifting political affiliations and his death in Louisville in 1272 as remembered by the St Louis Globe Democrat.
The piece argues Republican managers beg voters to attend primaries while voters grow disillusioned. It claims leaders betray ideals, driving indifference and even defections to Democrats, as officeholders pursue self interest. The author laments loss of principles and urges change.
The Albany Argus argues the Republican party has outlived its vigor and must go. It claims power abuse, waning faith among adherents, and that leaders like Dorsey, Belknap, and Kellogg have driven the party to decay. It notes war horses’ rhetoric cannot redeem it as times change and hypocrisy remains exposed. It ends with a German Empire statistic on married women.
The Dorsey disclosures electrify readers as they expose alleged Republican party inner workings. The piece argues party centralization and power lust debase governance, urging a Democratic restoration to curb corruption. It contends Garfield era events will be reviewed in a coming campaign and calls for the Democrats to govern honestly.
In Ohio a crowded Republican field vies for the Pendleton Senate seat. Lively speculation centers on Foster Butterworth Keifer Noyes and even R B Hayes amid mockening humor about a return to public life. Also notes a newly found stone Hiddenite and London plans for a Dickens memorial with three statues.
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